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Creating customized type for logos and graphics
From the course: Productivity Tips for Web Designers
Creating customized type for logos and graphics
- Hi, everyone, this is Sue Jenkins with productivity tips for Web designers. In this week's lesson, you'll discover how making fine-tuned adjustments to type shapes in Illustrator can help make your logos and graphics more unique and memorable than using straight fonts alone. There are two ways to edit the text characters in Illustrator, one is with the Touch Type Tool, which is new in Creative Cloud, and the other is by converting your fonts to outlines. So we'll start with me showing you how to use the Touch Type Tool. First you'll select your text, and then you need the Touch Type Tool, which you can get through the toolbar by clicking and holding down the "T" and scrolling all the way to the bottom of the fly-out menu. Then you'll click on the letter that you want to manipulate, you'll notice that there are four hollow circles on the letter. If you click on the top-left circle, you can scale vertically, if you click on the bottom-right you can scale horizontally. And if you click…
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- 01_01_MakingBlogHeadlinesPop.zip
- 01_02_block_quotes.zip
- 01_04_pairingfonts.zip
- 01_05_linkstyles.zip
- 01_06_Readability.zip
- 02_01_Rulers_Grid_Guides.zip
- 02_02_Shadow_Effects.zip
- 02_03_Type_Shapes.zip
- 02_04_AIWebSetup_Layout_Outlines.zip
- 02_05_AI_Symbols.zip
- 02_06_AI_TextFormattingForTheWeb.zip
- 02_07_AI_GraphicStyles.zip
- 02_08_AI_WorkingWithTextures.zip
- 02_09_AI_TheArtofRoundingCorners.zip
- 02_10_AI_UsingTextWrapAsPadding.zip
- 03_01_Grabbing_Measurements.zip
- 03_02_SmartFilters.zip
- 03_03_Content_Aware_Scale.zip
- 03_05_SamplingColors.zip
- 03_06_Resize.zip
- 03_07_ColorTinting.zip
- 03_08_QuickTeethWhitening.zip
- 03_09_Levels.zip
- 03_10_Optimize.zip
- 04_01_GoogleFonts.zip
- 04_02_bootstrap.zip
- 04_03_master_css.zip
- 04_04_CSSShadows.zip
- 04_05_repeat.zip
- 04_06_TwoMinRotate.zip
- 04_07_stitchedborder.zip
- 04_08_dropcaps.zip
- 04_10_CSSRoundingImages.zip
- 04_09_entities.zip
- 04_11_textselectioncolor.zip
- 04_12_tintedimagerollovers.zip
- 05_02_Externalize_CSS_JS.zip
- 05_04_CodeCleanup.zip
- 05_05_about_fix.zip
- 05_06_validation.zip
- 05_07_CheckingLinks.zip
- 05_08_5_8_Using_Snippets.zip
- 05_09_5_9_EasyPopups.zip
- 05_10_5_10_HideShow.zip
- 05_11_about.zip
- 05_12_SEOchallenge.zip
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Improving your layout efficiency with rulers, grids, and guides5m 56s
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Adding killer shadow effects9m 20s
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Creating customized type for logos and graphics8m 30s
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Configuring the workspace for web design8m 14s
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Saving time using Illustrator symbols8m 50s
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Formatting text for the web7m
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Graphic styles for the web8m 9s
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Two fantastic texture techniques7m 52s
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Zen and the art of rounded corners4m 59s
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Saving time using text wrap as padding4m 55s
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